I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
Paul Wellstone
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The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
Thomas Kinkade
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I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.
Ryan Cabrera
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I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
Morrissey
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Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Hoover
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Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with dignity.
Grace Potter
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
Ellen Key
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Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens
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I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.
Bernice King
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Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
Terry Waite
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The first job I had with what you might call human dignity, meaning with an office of my own and a bit of self-determination, was in technical writing, and only after I moved to Tel Aviv, where being a native English speaker is a meal ticket.
Nell Zink
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When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
Helen Garner
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And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
Carol Bellamy
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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We've supported the development of Cuba's private sector. This is a human rights issue - people should have the right to live with dignity and to control their livelihoods.
Ben Rhodes
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There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.
Robert Lepage
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Washington Irving
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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
John Polanyi
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
T. E. Lawrence
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Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.
Sting
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.
Rory Stewart
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